Great progress! Mandarin is no joke. I've been stalled on learning Macedonian just because I need to sit down and learn Cyrillic, I can't imagine figuring out Chinese. Gravity Falls is the show we watched the first time my friends and I got high together. Love that show! https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9woqfRjD01r8eipqo1_500.gif
Haha I can't imagine what watching the show is like while high. You should definitely check out Steven Universe as well! Pretty phenomenal. Yeah I think the most daunting thing about Mandarin is the lack of a proper script. I was learning Japanese for three years for before this so I know some of the characters but often times they mean completely different things. I basically have to sit down for 2 hours everyday to get anywhere and to make sure I remember what I've learned. I suppose that's probably the only way to learn any language, though. Keep going with Macedonian! The Cyrillic script has always seemed incredibly beautiful to me.